I’m writing this blog specifically for a friend of mine. He will know I’m writing about him shortly. 😉
I decided to write a little about the NASA Apollo missions and those few people who don’t believe they really happened. Why I’m writing this is simple. While doing some reading on other things I ran across the ‘theories’ of the Lunar hoax.
Now just because this would be the biggest hoax ever played on mankind is no reason not to believe those who say we didn’t land on the moon. I’m sure there could be instances when vast sums of money could used to convince people to think something happened, when in fact nothing happened at all.
That of course would be in a perfect world when there is no reason not to believe the agency in question. The late 1960’s and early 1970’s were not that perfect world. Even at that time people were saying we didn’t land on the moon, there were not that many, but always a few.
The biggest problems I have with any hoax on the lunar landings are these. During the height of the Cold War, when the USSR was just as intent on the space race as the USA, how did we fool them. They landed an unmanned probe in 1959, 10 years before Apollo 11. They must have been able to track space ships to and from the moon. If they didn’t track one, and could not track the radio communications between the earth and the moon, why haven’t they said so yet. I’m sure at the time they would have loved any excuse to throw this in the face of the USA. And the other thing, why fake so many missions. Faking it once is hard enough. Faking it 9 times is a bit of overkill, and then why fake the failed Apollo 13 mission?
There are many other Web sites that will take on this lunar landing hoax, I just brought it up for a good friend with one wacky idea. Of course, he thinks that my belief in the lunar landings is a wacky idea, so I guess that makes us even. 😉
I plead the fifth 🙂
HMMM…
We landed on the moon? 😮 😀
Well, I thought so for the past 39 years. Others have tried to convince me otherwise, but they fail to see the holes in their arguments.;)
I should add that there may be other ‘proof’ in the next few months. Depending on when and/or if China and Japan release data from the two lunar orbiters in place now, we may finally see the landing sites with enough detail to pick out the stuff left behind. I’m sure if they don’t find anything, either country would love to rub our noses in it.
The two lunar orbiters are scheduled to start releasing photos early next year. It appears both the Chinese and Japanese governments hold up release of data until after the main mission is complete.